2011

“Where the Train Goes Slow:” An Excerpt from Johnny Cash’s American Recordings

We love the 33 1/3 series from Continuum, which explores individual albums through slender investigations from rock critics such as Rob Trucks on Fleetwood Mac and Amanda Petrusich on Nick…

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Historic STD Posters

“Over the past 100 years, thousands of posters and advertisements have been created to warn or educate the public about STDs. Looking though today’s eyes, many older ones seem scandalous…

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Video

“No Mistakes Left to Make” with Jim Shepard

The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “No Mistakes Left to Make” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! May 9th, The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street in San Francisco, 7pm Featuring authors Cheryl Strayed,…

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Features & Reviews

“On Language Nerds and Nags”

Self-ascribed “language nerd” Robert Lane Greene explains why “grammar rules are far more fluid than most people think.” (via TheBookBench)

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Features & Reviews

Cooking the Books

Emily Gould (who we interviewed in a Conversation with Writers Braver Than Me) has a new episode of her series Cooking the Books, in which she cooks with writers as…

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Politics

The Food Stamp Challenge: Eating on Four Dollars a Day

Katie Hoeber is a student at San Francisco State University working on her Masters in Public Health Nursing. As a project for her Community Nursing class, Katie is spending a…

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Morning Coffee

Way to go Republicans, now how are we supposed to detect alien invasions. Liquid font. Department of things-you-can-fill-French-potholes-with: yarn! Wonderful vintage Italian advertisements. (via Aqua-Velvet.) Did you guys know the…

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Poems

National Poetry Month, Day 28: “Casket Sharp” by Saeed Jones

Casket Sharp Your soft cough becomes prognosis. Soon, cigarette smoke is the inkblot test of the lung.

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The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles

"I think we're always a little bit in hell. Like how hot New York is in the summer. Or an intense, wonderful, hard, hard relationship could be hell, and you think, I will stay here forever, because I love you."

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Media

Erin Rose’s Tech Links

Evidently, good grammar is profitable: Mechanically proofreading users’ online reviews and correcting errors increases sales. Apple says they aren’t tracking the location of iPhones. India is putting strict limitations on…

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Erin Fleming: The Last Book I Loved, Cassandra at the Wedding

I left Cassandra at the Wedding tearily hopeful and good and chastised. I say left, but mean emerged from, because Cassandra is as much a spell or an ocean as…

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“Where the Train Goes Slow:” An Excerpt from Johnny Cash’s American Recordings

Historic STD Posters

While My Ukulele Gently Weeps

“No Mistakes Left to Make” with Jim Shepard

“On Language Nerds and Nags”

Cooking the Books

The Food Stamp Challenge: Eating on Four Dollars a Day

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

National Poetry Month, Day 28: “Casket Sharp” by Saeed Jones

The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles

Erin Rose’s Tech Links

Erin Fleming: The Last Book I Loved, Cassandra at the Wedding

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